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Experts and Advocates Agree: The Employee Free Choice Act Is Crucial to Economic Recovery 		Print
Recently published opinion pieces from a wide variety of voices—including economics professors, a leading advocate for working women, an Arkansas state representative, and a well-known political expert—have made a strong case for the Employee Free Choice Act as critical to economic recovery.
  • A piece in the Denver Post by Linda Meric, executive director of 9to5 , the National Association of Working Women, called the Employee Free Choice Act an important way to address the gender-based pay gap and provide economic security for low-wage women and their families. Read more.

  • Political strategist Paul Begala argued in Politico that the Employee Free Choice Act will help the economy work for everyone again.  Highlighting the contrast between real workers who were fired for union activity and CEOs making millions while companies go under, Begala took on the corporate interests trying to protect the status quo. Read more.

  • Maine economics professors Michael Hillard and David Vail urged Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to support the Employee Free Choice Act as “an excellent opportunity to correct a failure of human rights while rebuilding a solid foundation for shared economic prosperity.” Read more.

  • Arkansas State Representative Richard Carroll supported the Employee Free Choice Act in the North Little Rock Times:  “As a member of the state Legislature, I have seen first-hand the devastating effects of poverty-level wages on my constituents and the community at large. Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act would ensure that workers have the livable wages guaranteed by a union contract.” Read more.
 
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